Memoirs and Misinformation
A Novel
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Jeff Daniels
About this listen
New York Times best seller
"None of this is real and all of it is true." (Jim Carrey)
Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege — but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the sage advice of his best friend, actor, and dinosaur skull collector Nicolas Cage isn't enough to pull Carrey out of his slump.
But then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And with the help of auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself — finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up!
But the universe has other plans.
Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our "one big soul", Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world — apocalypses within and without.
©2020 Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon (P)2020 Random House AudioCritic Reviews
“A mad fever dream... Carrey and his collaborator Vachon pull out all the stops as their protagonist Jim Carrey careens from midlife blues through love and career complications toward the apocalypse...gems of comic fantasy and the nuggets of memoir gold.” (Kirkus)
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- Joel
- 07-10-2022
Exciting in some places but confusing
This book has some interesting parts, but I found it extremely confusing to follow what was happening sometimes. Hard to tell what was a real life event and what was just complete fantasy. Definitely not a biography, but a novel with real life characters and events placed in it.
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- Nathan Dutton
- 02-09-2020
Don't beam me up.
Different. Wasn't prepared for such a story. Daniels voice was like slow jazz. Perfect.
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- Jay_Lobasso
- 17-01-2021
Journey into the self
I have always been a Jim Carrey fan and that extends to his recent philosophies.
In choosing to read this book I presumed I would be presented with an alternate take on Jim's life, a sort of embellished autobiography. I never imagined the journey it would take however, and was thoroughly entertained, laughing out loud one minute, and feeling deep longing and pathos the next.
Truly a winding journey into the self, with a few embellished star appearances along the way that leave you laughing but also wondering how much embellishment was actually required.
Lastly, if Nicolas Cage was represented even minutely close to his real self, I would not at all be surprised as the Nic Cage in this book is glorious.
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- Strider
- 05-08-2021
Jim, I've missed you
Jim Carrey. One of the funniest men on the planet let's his art flow through these pages. Seeing inside the minds of one of the biggest stars of my childhood is great but sometimes I just want to find Jim and hug him lol. Literally unlike any thing else I've ever read and it was a welcome surprise. From Disney To relationships, UFOs to Anthony Hopkins and beyond into the nether. If you even remotely like Jim Carrey or just need a little change in perspective through some laughter - pick this up. And also, Nic Cage I love you, man.
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- Katie Batty
- 26-10-2020
Bizarre but brilliant
An entertaining book that gave thoughtful insights into fame, performance, capitalism and so much more.
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- Josh
- 12-08-2020
Starts strong, strange ending
Enjoyable ride but gets weirder and weirder. Someone should probably ask Jim Carrey if he's okay.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-01-2025
What am I listening to?
I was so looking forward to reading about Jim Carey’s life but this was just a mishmash of random stories and characters that just randomly arrive with little explanation and no introduction. I found it so hard to follow and kept thinking I had missed parts, as the story jumped all over the place. I stopped listening midway. Disappointing
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- Tracy
- 03-08-2020
Started off good then got too weird
I enjoyed it to start with but it just got really weird at the end.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-06-2025
Just ramblings mostly.
Could not make any sense of much of it. It sounded like one long vivid nightmare. I was disappointed.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-01-2022
Insanity meets self indulgence
I hang in with this, mainly because of Jeff Daniel’s narration - otherwise I would characterise this as self indulgent shite. A meandering story of nothing in particular.
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